Crashdump (smart home related ???)

louis2

Hello, since two days I try to get a smart home zig bee gateway in vlan A working with a tablet in vlan B

It is not working and I see strange behavoir which I do not understand at all.

In that situation I already had two crash dumps in the past days. I do not know if it is related or that it is related to something not related in the actual test build.

Note that I have also a beta of PIMD running, but that package has been running for months without any issues. The reason to mention it here is that it is using multicast something which the smart home gateway seems to do as well (not sure what that gateway is exactly doing)

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jimp

The backtrace doesn't look familiar, but there are some known crashes with multicast that aren't specific to dev snapshots.

For example there is a known panic in PIMD if it tries to attach to an interface that doesn't exist. So the first thing I'd check is if all the interfaces in PIMD are present and enabled. If they are, I'd still try running without PIMD for a bit to see if it's stable.

louis2

@jimp

Know that I am running a compiled version of the actual github files "pimd3" and not the >not at all working< years ago released "pimd2" version.

I have that version running for a many months first on the 12.3 version of 2.7 and since a couple of months on the freebsd 14 version of 2.7. I did not have any serious issues during that period.

So, PIMD may contribute in some way to the problem, but the crashes are really from the past couple of days. It started around the same time that I noticed the DHCP / got the patch. And perhaps also related the fact that I did start with the zig bee gateway.

I really see wired things, which I do not understand at all and I try to investigate. Not unlikely that the reason for the complexity is that there is not one issue, but that there are multiple issues. ...

jimp

Then I would definitely not use that version of PIMD because who knows what might be broken with it, too.

You're almost certainly not building it from the exact same set of sources as the snapshot you're running, which is a recipe for disaster.

louis2

@jimp
I disagree! The version is running without problems for months and I did build it from freebsd 14 current, just like pfSense.

louis2

@jimp

In order to analyze the problems I will of cause remove all things not necessary. I removed:

the zig bee gateway
haproxy package
System_Patches package
I stopped pimd (which is running properly!)
I will also update to the next build as soon as it becomes available

Adding them step by step back again as soon as the actual step works as expected.... (apart from the system patches package)

louis2

@jimp

I did not see this problem any more in the past two weeks. It must have been some issue which have been fixed in the builds since than.

Louis